Protecting the environment has been a constant throughout the various reforms of European agricultural policy over the last 10 years. Nonetheless, the impact of agri-food sector on natural resources continues to be singled out for criticism, despite the efforts engaged. Transcending such differences is a matter of urgency.
🇪🇺 A three-speed Europe 🇪🇺 Since the start of the budget period (2021), Member States have allocated more than €18 billion in State aid to the agricultural sector, representing no less than 11% of total aid under the first pillar of the CAP – a proportion that rises to 14% when focussing solely […]
To meet its climate objectives, the European Union needs a strategy to support the implementation and deployment of carbon mitigation solutions. The stakes are high: Europe aims to have its Forestry andAgricultural Land Use sector climate-neutral by 2035. The EU developed a system of incentives that would allow land managers, including farmers, to be rewarded […]
In November, the US Food & Drugs Administration, the public office responsible for food safety, approved the first step that opens the door to commercialization to an imitation of ‘chicken’ produced in the lab by UPSIDE Food. At the same time, ingredient-provider start up is proposing to replace bees with bioreactors and precision-fermentation to supply […]
November was marked by the Commission communication on fertilizers whose aim is to face the consequences of the skyrocketing prices for this agricultural input for farmers. On the legislative dossiers, the revision of the sustainable use of pesticides has also been affected by the current crisis and the consequences of the Russian aggression to Ukraine, […]
While at the European Parliament the political group of the Greens hosted the ‘GM-free Europe’ event where policy makers and stakeholders from national and NGO organisations expressed worries around the possibility to a deregulation of ‘new GMOs’, the Commissioner for Health replied to the chair of the AGRI Committee saying that new technologies could be […]
Outside the EU, states like Kenya and Ukraine open up to the possibility to have a more flexible legislation around genetic engineering techniques. Within the EU, the French organization for biotechnology pushes for a stronger use of new genomic techniques to assure food security and face the climate challenges. At the same time, EFSA developed […]